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Whiteley's Schoolboys' Story Book. William Whiteley Ltd. ND. Circa 1925. Quarto Annual. Illustrated cloth spine on Illustrated paper boards of Bi plane flying over desert. PP211 with 16 full page chromolithograph images. Many line drawings within text. 26 stories an articles written by notable authors as Algernon Blackwood and R A H Good Year. A little shelf wear to edges of boards. All pages are bright and clean, probably unread. A scarce copy of the book sold in the Whiteleys Department store in Bayswater, which was to be taken over by Selfridges in 1927.
Eric: Or, Little By Little - a Tale of Roslyn School by Farrar, Dean Frederic W - 1866
by Farrar, Dean Frederic W
Eric: Or, Little By Little - a Tale of Roslyn School
by Farrar, Dean Frederic W
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New York: M. Doolady, Publisher, 1866. 366 pages. Bound in brown cloth, blindstamped with a design and lines on boards, titling in gilt much faded but still discernable on spine, indicates "College Library" series. Corners are worn round, cloth scuffed, splitting along spine, paint at heel of spine and bottom edge. Brown chalky endpapers, with contemporary name and city in quite amazing Victorian decorative calligraphy on ffep, and 1970s bookplate on pastedown. Binding is quite firm, almost tight, in good+ condition with hinges intact, although slanted; some pages foxed/ lightly soiled and all moderately age-toned; half-title page and rear free endpaper missing. Overall quite a serviceable copy, and a very early American printing (although preceded by the edition published by W. I. Pooley, NY).. Hard Cover. Fair. 5 x 7.5 in. (12.5cm x 19cm).
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- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1866
- Keywords Antiquarian Books School Stories Boys Victorian Boarding Schools
Whiteley's Schoolboys' Story Book. Ca 1925
by William Whiteley Ltd
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JERRY'S JOB
by Waggaman, Mary
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Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Cover has slight soiling. Spine weak and cracked. ; 340 pages .
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Seventh-Grade Weirdo
by Lee Wardlaw
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Halifax, Pennsylvania, United States
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Stated First Scholastic printing, August 1992. Slightly bumped upper and lower spine ends. The dust jacket has some slight scratching on the front cover and slight wrinkling at upper and lower spine ends. Book appears unread.
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Stories Told in an African Forest (by Grown-up Children of Africa)
by Jephson, A. J. Mounteney
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Stanley, New York, United States
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New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1893. Book. Illus. by Walter W. Buckley, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1893. First Edition. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Walter W. Buckley, Illustrator. First Edition. Clean beige boards with stamped gold lettering and illustration of small black children dancing with spears on cover; navy blue cloth spine with bright gold lettering. A few tiny spots of wear to cloth at spine edges; some wear to corner tips. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean black endpapers and gilt page edges. No foxing. No names, writing or bookplates. Beautifully illustrated by Walter W. Buckley. 168 pgs. RARE..
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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Akron, Ohio: Saalfield. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. 60 p. 30 cm. Moisture stains on rear board has caused slight warp to upper corner and edge. Corners lightly bumped. Some wear to spine ends and corner tips. Moisture spotting on upper board. Overall light rubbing. Small piece missing from one corner of paste-down illustration. Tiny tear to edge of title page. Some foxing within, particularly to rear side of plates. Occasional light soiling to pages, but really quite bright and presentable. Includes 13 full colour and attractive watercolour plates by Clara Burd. This is a rare cloth-bound (black) edition, with a colour paste-down illustration of children raking leaves on the upper board. Book is heavy and will require extra postage to most destinations. .
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The Jolly Jump-Ups Vacation Trip
by Clyne, Geraldyne
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Lee, New Hampshire, United States
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Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., 1942 Spine is worn, some wear to corners, pop-ups are in excellent condition. Pop-ups of Washington, D.C., U.S. Naval Academy, West Point, camping in the mountains, The Grand Canyon, at the seashore.
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Whiteley's Schoolboys' Story Book. Ca 1925
by William Whiteley Ltd
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Whiteley's Schoolboys' Story Book. William Whiteley Ltd. ND. Circa 1925. Quarto Annual. Illustrated cloth spine on Illustrated paper boards of Bi plane flying over desert. PP211 with 16 full page chromolithograph images. Many line drawings within text. 26 stories an articles written by notable authors as Algernon Blackwood and R A H Good Year. A little shelf wear to edges of boards. All pages are bright and clean, probably unread. A scarce copy of the book sold in the Whiteleys Department store in Bayswater, which was to be taken over by Selfridges in 1927.
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Seventh-Grade Weirdo
by Lee Wardlaw
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Halifax, Pennsylvania, United States
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Stated First Scholastic printing, August 1992. Slightly bumped upper and lower spine ends. The dust jacket has some slight scratching on the front cover and slight wrinkling at upper and lower spine ends. Book appears unread.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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Akron, Ohio: Saalfield. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. 60 p. 30 cm. Moisture stains on rear board has caused slight warp to upper corner and edge. Corners lightly bumped. Some wear to spine ends and corner tips. Moisture spotting on upper board. Overall light rubbing. Small piece missing from one corner of paste-down illustration. Tiny tear to edge of title page. Some foxing within, particularly to rear side of plates. Occasional light soiling to pages, but really quite bright and presentable. Includes 13 full colour and attractive watercolour plates by Clara Burd. This is a rare cloth-bound (black) edition, with a colour paste-down illustration of children raking leaves on the upper board. Book is heavy and will require extra postage to most destinations. .
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Little Folks Picture Story Book
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good-. [1920]. Hardcover. 159 p. 26 cm. Sound and square with cloth backed spine. Coloured pastedown illustration on upper board. Corners rounded and worn through. Edges worn. Bottom of spine is slightly frayed. Upper board has a couple of small pull marks and stains. Lower board has darkened has has a stain along the bottom front corner. Inside, the endpapers are discoloured, the front free heavily so. The pages have occasional soiling, mostly in the margins, and are slightly age toned. One plate has a closed tear that extends 1" into the illustration and which has been repaired with acid free PVA. Still quite attractive, overall. A collection of stories and poems by such authors as Ethel Talbot and Angela Brazil, with six full colour plates by Scottish illustrator Anne Anderson, and pen and ink illustrations by her and her husband Allan Wright. .
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Day In and Day Out (The Alice and Jerry Books, Reading Foundation Series)
by Mabel O'Donnell; Alice Carey
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Bob Son of Battle
by Alfred Oliphant
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The story focuses on the rivalry between two sheepdogs and their masters, and chronicles the coming of age of a boy who is caught between them. David M'Adam, the boy, was half-orphaned by the death of his mother, and is left to the care of his father, Adam M'Adam, a sarcastic, angry alcoholic with a few redeeming qualities. M'Adam is the owner of Red Wull, a huge, violent dog who herds his sheep by brute force. Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Hardcover. Condition: vg+. .356 pages Find copy in Dark Blue Boards . copyright Doubleday & McClure (New York), 1889. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Rare first edition original 1899 edition by Doubleday and McClure Company New York. Nice copy all on hand laid paper. Deckled edges. Bob Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant. Copyright 1889. Some browning of pages. In a navy cloth binding. Externally sound. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked/,
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Ronny Meets the Cadborosuarus
by Elmay Crow
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Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Crow Publishing, Victoria, 1971, 30 pages, 6.5" x 8.5", Near Fine, Comb Bound Softcover. An uncommon self published companion to "Ronny Meets The Sasquatch".
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Bedtime Stories
by Tenggren, Gustaf: Illustrated by
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1978 - 16th printing- vintage Bedtime Stories - Little Red Riding Hood - book: very good - all pages are clean and unmarked - edge wear on boards good for age - pages show some toning at edges - ELEMENT: includes a little red riding hood/big bad wolf as grandma flip doll - doll is professionally sewn with intricate details
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El Principe Picenin – The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A special copy of The Little Prince translated into the Venetian (Venetan/Veneto) language, also called dialeto del mar – the dialect of the sea. Included is the bookmark from the bookstore - Libreria Acqua Alta. Great gift for any Little Prince collector. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The House That Jack Built: The Old Woman and Her Pig
by Rodney Peppe
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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Pocket sized reproduction from Pleasewell Series of the 1890s. This edition is reversible with The Old Woman and Her Pig also featured when the book is flipped over. Each story has reproduced lithographs from the original publication. No creasing, no age spots, Like New !
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Foreign Agent
by Thor, Brad
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- 9781501147494 / 1501147498
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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New York: Atria Books, 2016. Signed on fep First Edition with full number line This is a limited, signed edition with an exclusive, to this edition, additional chapter. Please note what looks like a "Signed Edition" sticker on the front of dust jacket. It is not a a sticker; it is part of the design of the jacket. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 338 pages PLUS additional chapter "exclusively for Target customers." Target is US-based department store. From jacket: "Scot Harvath has exactly the skills the CIA is looking for. He's a former Navy SEAL with extensive experience in espionage. Working for a private intelligence company, he will provide the CIA, and more important, the President, with absolute deniability. But deep within the Russian Caucasus, Moscow also has its own special kind of operative... When a clandestine American operations team is ambushed near Syria, all signs point toward a dangerous informant in Brussels..." A new book, but with…
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Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)
by Fred Rogers
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Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of…
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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